Musar for Eruvin 111:5
רבי יוסי אומר אם אינו יודע לרבעה בריבוע של עולם מרבעה כמין התקופה כיצד חמה יוצאה ביום ארוך ושוקעת ביום ארוך זה הוא פני צפון חמה יוצאה ביום קצר ושוקעת ביום קצר זה הוא פני דרום תקופת ניסן ותקופת תשרי חמה יוצאה בחצי מזרח ושוקעת בחצי מערב
in the North and the Scorpion in the South. R'Jose said: If one<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Being unable to identify either of the two constellations.');"><sup>10</sup></span> does not know how to square a town so as to make it correspond with the directions of the world, one may square it in accordance with the circuit of the sun.
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
I have found a very brilliant allusion to the 365 days of the solar year in the very name of the sun, in a book called Ginat Egoz. The author explains that we have three different names for "sun" in Hebrew. It is called שמש, חמה, חרס. When you combine the last letter in each of these three names for the sun you get 365= שהס. According to our tradition the sun is guided by an angel. When you spell the Hebrew word for "angel," i.e. מלאך, using words instead of letters, ממ, למד, אלף, כף you get a total of 365. When you spell the word מלאך in the conventional way, using only letters, you get a total of 91. This is an allusion to the four seasons in the solar year, each of which comprises 91 days.
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